Was born in Popayán, Colombia, in 1951. He lives and works in Cali. He participated in several group exhibitions since 1980, and in international events such as the XIX Sao Paulo Biennial in 1987; the first Kwangju Biennial, in South Korea 1994; the FotoFest, Houston, in 1996; the VI Havana Biennial in 1997 and the VIII Bogotá Art Biennial in 2002. From the beginning of his career as a photo-realist drawing artist, he has developed his work based on photography. Since the Narcisos series, first shown in 1995 at the La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art (Cali, Colombia) , Muñoz has explored portrait and its relationship with the passing of time. This ork has made him come to inquire, through diverse media and supports, the fundamental elements of image from antagonist opposites like literal/metaphoric, reality/fiction

Takeshi Murata continues to push the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. In Monster Movie Murata employs an exacting frame-by-frame technique to turn a bit of B-movie footage into a seething, fragmented morass of color and shape that decomposes and reconstitutes itself thirty times per second.
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Takeshi Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago, IL. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation. Takeshi Murata produces abstract digital works that refigure the experience of animation. Creating Rorschach-like fields of seething color, form and motion, Murata pushes the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. With a powerfully sensual force that is expressed in videos, loops, installations, and electronic music, Murata`s synaesthetic experiments in hypnotic perception appear at once seductively organic and totally digital.
Murata has exhibited at Peres Projects, Los Angeles; Gavin Brown`s Enterprise, New York; Eyebeam, New York, FACT Centre, Liverpool, UK; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti (all 2004), New York Underground Film Festival (2005), and Smack Mellon. Murata lives and works in upstate New York.

Something New Under the Sun is the first narrative film by artist Gavin Murphy, and was the result of exhaustive research carried out over a 3-year period. It takes as its subject the IMCO building (a demolished modernist factory) and the lost work of its chief designer Oliver P. Bernard. The IMCO building was during its brief existence, a major landmark on Dublin’s south coast, yet it is all but forgotten today, and entirely undocumented. Similarly much of Bernard’s work has been demolished or replaced.
In the film, anachronic image sequences are interleaved with intertextual narration, drawn from a multitude of sources, viewpoints and timeframes: Bernard’s life and work (including his dramatic survival of the sinking of the Luisitania in 1915); IMCO’s owners and various phases of the building and its demolition; the discovery of dry-cleaning; and the words of Henri de Saint-Simon, Blaise Pascal, and American author Lewis Mumford on time and the notion of ‘being out of date’. The film notes the parallel fates of the building’s architecture and the dry-cleaning machinery it housed – becoming technologically and stylistically obsolete – and the symbolic necessity of razing the present to make way for the future.

Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist and curator. His research-based practice encompasses assemblage, writing, still photography and moving image, with an interest in the sculptural possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène. Murphy’s work has been exhibited in Irish Museum of Modern Art (Project Space), 2014; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2014; BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 2013; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2012; Conical, Melbourne, 2009; and Colony, Birmingham, 2007.
A monograph/research study, On Seeing Only Totally New Things, was published in 2013. His recent exhibition for the Sleepwalkers series at Dublin City Gallery is to be featured in an accompanying book published by Ridinghouse UK, to include texts by Chantal Mouffe, and Simon Critchley. He is the recipient of various Arts Council awards, and residencies at Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; and he is co-director/curator of the artist-run space, Pallas Projects/Studios.
Curated projects include the first solo exhibition of the British artist/filmmaker John Smith in Ireland (The world seems a long way away, Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2011); and he was co-curator/producer of Darklight Compendium Vol. 1– the first Irish-produced DVD collection of experimental shorts, animation and artists’ film (2007).

Various reels of found 35mm movie film are pulled over a light box under the fixed gaze of video capture. Through veils of apparent motion, the movements of characters can be discerned and their motivations artfully speculated upon.
An oblique tribute to Pere Portabella`s Vampir-Cuadecuc, narrative and plot in Untitled (time) are progressively subsumed in a switching and swaying abstraction to percussion rhythms crashed out on cymbals.

Julie Murray was born in Ireland and lives in the US.
Her work has been included in many festivals including the New York
Film Festival, Images, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and has
been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and more recently at Irish
Film Institute/ AEMI Dublin.
Her films are in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film Archive, LA The Museum of Modern Art`s Film
Archives, NY as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prints of her 16mm films are also to be found in the Public Library`s Special Collections, New York. She likes this fact.
Murray`s early super-8 films were selected for a National Film
Preservation Foundation Award in 2014.

Untitled (earth)is a digital montage of found film material examined over a lightbox. Hazy figures in smudged pink and gold landscapes are pulled past the video lens unraveling the film image. A cinematic experience is reassembled in stop/start motion falling in and out of sync with the video frame rate. Ruined image detail in rhythmic incantation taps a remembrance of familiar forms in the brightly patterned tropes of cinema.

Born in Ireland and living in the US, Murray draws upon her background in art studies and practice to make moving image works in a range of experimental forms. Her films and videos have screened widely and her work is in a number of library and special collections. She is currently teaching at the University of Iowa.

"Beach Time" is inspired by a daily routine that was recorded from the fact that everyone can see. This work will challenge at least two different points of view. First, seen and understood from a modernist perspective, the appearance of swimming women who are wearing veils on a beach would be considered 'not functional' as they should have worn more efficient and practical swimsuits. Meanwhile, the beach is actually a public space that should consider public interest. For the swimming women, wearing veils while swimming is not at all a problem in enjoying the beach. Moreover, swimming at a beach is a new tradition for them. It seems that they translate the swimming habit with their own tradition, namely 'kungkum' (to inundate someone's body in water), which is indeed more spiritual.

According to the French poststructuralist philosopher Jean Baudrillard, everyday life unfolds in a system of signs, a "car" for example implies "driving pleasure", "progress", or "independence". Baudrillard plays with the re-articulation of theories of structural linguistics and semiotics - terms such as signifier and signified, coined by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Following this approach, one can examine how the aircraft as an object or signifier has undertaken various shifts in meaning since its invention.
Once it stood for technical progress and the latest evolutionary step in military technology - and technology per se meant military superiority in a post-industrial era marked by enthusiastic nationalism - then, since about the 70s (a date chosen knowingly arbitrarily), the airplane has been increasingly considered as an object which can be instrumentalised for terroristic activities with relative ease. Cheap flight deals offered by discount air lines, a development that began approximately in the 90ies, have made distances appear smaller and smaller (already before the plane has been co-symbol for globalisation), and in addition stripped "traveling by air" of its hitherto semi-luxurious connotation (the once fashionable term "Jet Set" now appears rather outdated). Finally, the aircraft has become a symbol for the rapidly progressing depletion of fossil fuels - natural resources that were created over geological time frames, now to be extracted in a crescendo of global consumption: the object plane has turned into one of the motors of man-made climate change, and the frequent traveler is confronted with the term "carbon footprint".
For the subject or individual an aircraft offers the possibility of rapidly overcoming distances, in return for subjecting oneself to being "locked up" for a certain period - subjugating any sense of individual autonomy to total confidence in technology and the crew operating the aircraft (this can be seen as one of the reasons why the suicide of the German-Wing pilot in 2015 became such a collective traumatic experience).
The video piece "Footnote #03: Gold & Clouds" aims to be a meditative reflection on the object "aircraft". It has been conceived during a stay at the Saari Residence in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland, and finalised during a residency at the Brno House of the Arts.

David Muth is an artist, musician and programmer. Having grown up in Salzburg, Austria, he relocated to the UK to study at Middlesex University, where he received an MA in Digital Arts. He currently lives and works in London, Vienna and Turku.
His artistic practice combines conceptual and experimental approaches and is informed by his background in architecture. His projects range from installations and responsive environments, through video and photography, to composition and performance of music.
Muth's work has been shown on numerous occasions internationally, with venues and events including the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montreal, the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Ars Electronica in Linz, Le Cube in Paris, Laboral in Gijón, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg. Institutions he has taught at include Ravensbourne University of London and the Royal College of Art, and he currently lectures at Goldsmiths University of London.

Christophe Girardet was born in 1966 in Lagenhagen, Germany, and studied in Braunschweig. He has been working in the fields of video, cinema and installations since 1987. Matthias Müller was born in 1961 in Bielefeld, Germany, and studied in Bielefeld and Brunswick. He has been working as a movie theater director, video artist, photographer and independent art curator since 1981. He was also teaching at the Art and Audiovisual media Academy of Cologne.

An unnamed event starts; continues; has vague highlights; and quickly ends. The video documents this self-referential and explicit happening as an array of random cuts between random space and time orders. Layers of affirmation follow layers of affirmation. It is almost what it is: a workable portrait of an event.

Peter Müller has studied Visual Communication/Fine Arts. Consecutively, he held positions as visiting scholar and artistic researcher. At the moment he is scholarly and artistically pursuing a doctorate. His works, collaborations and projects deal with questions of narration, representation, creation of presence, as well with questions on modes of mass media realism and circles of production.

In Cyrk we meet the Circus Arnardo and the people who work there. The film stylises the life of the circus and its main character.
Through the interplay of fact and fiction, the film investigates the tricks and devices used in our various forms of media and our different ways of perceiving the world. Cyrk wishes to challenge our need to understand and find meaning in the things we are asked to take on trust. Exploring the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity, between body and mind, the film conveys both the physical and the emotive aspects of the main character’s story of grief and loss. Thematically, it revolves around the fear of meaninglessness as a human disposition, which we confront by seeking structure in the ideas of religion, ideology and culture. It also raises questions about the way this search for meaning, order and system – on both the private and the social level – can lead to the categorisation and stigmatisation of certain groups and individuals.

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen (b. 1978) graduated from Bergen National Academy of Art and Design in 2005. She lives in Oslo and is working in the field of film and videoart. She has participated in numerous international festivals, screenings and exhibitions and has received several national grants.

Insignificant within the immensity of a snowy landscape, a handful of men oppose their physical resistance to the force of nature. United, close together, they tackle the hostility surrounding them by way of a strangely choreographed, hesitant ballet. A visual poem of furious beauty, Despair depicts the mechanisms of a world governed by crows.

Since 1993 Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov have created a large number of projects, which demonstrate a wide range of the artists` interests and their inclination to creative experiments in sphere cinema and of contemporary art. Among them there are experimental films which took part in numerous international festivals around the world (such as Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, Milan, Hamburg, Montreal, Moscow, Pesaro. Sao Paulo and others). Many of films have won several awards
(including Tiger Award for Short Film of 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam and Gran Premio of Asolo International Art Film Festival ); and belong to the museum collections; a number of installations created as joint international projects and presented at some Biennale (such as Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art /Moscow/, The young artist`s
Biennial/Bucharest/, KunstFilmBiennale/Cologne/, Biennial of Moving Images/Geneva/. In 2005, Myznikova and Provorov /PROVMYZA/ represented Russia with innovative project ?Idiot Wind? at 51st Venice Biennial. In 2007 they became nominees of Main National Premiums of Contemporary Art ?Innovation? and ?Kandinsky Award?.